Dooxton
Dooxton Dooxton
  • 09-03-2017
  • Mathematics
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A race consists of seven runners. How many ways can the runners finish first, second and third?

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MysteriousPanda
MysteriousPanda MysteriousPanda
  • 09-03-2017
The way to figure this out is using factorial which is the !. So their are seven runners so it would be 7! (7*6*5*4*3*2*1). However it wants to only know first second and third so it changes things. This then makes it 7*6*5 because you can only have one racer finish in the 3 spots. 

So your answer is 7*6*5=210

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